From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T16:12:14+09:00
Subject: RE: adding overload to ruby

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bulat Ziganshin [mailto:bulatz@integ.ru] 
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 2:53 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby
> 
> 
> Hello Rich,
> 
> Friday, September 27, 2002, 8:11:10 AM, you wrote:
> 
> >>     Fixnum a
> >>     a = 10    # fine
> RK> Actually, you inverted my thought.  I am not interested 
> in types on 
> RK> variables, but type (hints) on method signatures.
> 
> RK> def foo(name<String>, age<Fixnum>)
> RK>   ...
> RK> end
> 
> it's the same - name and age will be local variables, want you or not
> :)
> 
> -- 

Actually its not the same.  I don't want the type information 
associated with the variables, but with the method objects 
themselves...so I can reflect the 'type hint' of the parameters.
I want metadata, not function.

-rich